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Originally Posted by Prokopton
How did you arrive at that conclusion?
Even wikipedia could have set you right there:
The Tao does indeed mean the way as a path, but even if it didn't, simple acceptance is not the only lesson of Tao Te Ching! And even less of Taoism generally.
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I learn from long hours of still silence... and the temporal change occcurs as I remain on the very brink of creation and destruction as the moment this unfolds is the very same one in which it ceases, so the path is the organized structure of retrospect which does not exist at all beyond the mindful recollection of what was, for even the imagined projection of the path before us is a thought which immediately passes.
For this reason I am pretty sure the way pertains to 'the way it is'.. so i'm going with the loose definition of 'principle'